Sfax Governor Fakher Fakhfakh said everything suggests that the fire that has declared itself to the port of the port of Sfax is of criminal origin.
He said, at the microphone of Mosaic FM, this Thursday, November 17, 2022, that the President of the Republic, Kais Saied, called him to “congratulate him and greet the efforts made by the governorate to get out of the environmental crisis”.
Regarding his request to close Facebook, Fakher Fakhfakh said that the economic attaché of the Netherlands Embassy questioned him, during a visit to Kerkennah, where he was accompanied by an official from the Ministry of Health and the Ambassador of the Netherlands, on certain news circulating on Facebook. “They were all false,” he said.
And to add: “I was angry and when I asked to close Facebook, I wanted to talk about the pages that do not respect the conventions of communication and virtual friendship and which spread the intoxication and spread rumors”.
In this context, he suggested the creation of a Tunisian Facebook, based on charters and in which it is forbidden to spread rumors.
A fire broke out on Tuesday in the port of the Port of Sfax road, closed since the end of October.
Civil protection units have mobilized since yesterday to master the fire. Two trucks had been devoted to extinguish the fire, according to the regional director of civil protection, Hatem Boubaker, who said that the fire is no danger for the neighboring residential and industrial areas.
The president of the municipal district of the city of Sfax, Mounir Affes, said that it is not a criminal fire, but the result of waste fermentation. He specified that the discharge has been closed for more than 15 days on October 31 and that no one can enter it.
“Those who say that it is a criminal act are mistaken, because there is a fermentation that takes place and caused this fire,” he said, adding that “the fact that the fire declared itself on the side of the marsh proves it well, because no one could have access to this place”.
The governor of Sfax, Fakher Fakhfakh is not of the same opinion as the mayor. Indeed, the governor said, this Wednesday, November 16, 2022, that a complaint was filed against X following the fire.
According to him, the fire is of criminal origin “because some people have no interest in opening the garbage file in the region”.
